The Story of His Holiness, The Gay Knight of Frisia
Chapter One -- The Beginning
The following is an account of legends and hearsay from the people of Calradia; as with all great tales the true details of these stories may be lost to the cleansing seas of time, but even mythic tales of old contain at least some truth. Learned men and those of the peasantry have different views of The Gay Knight, but both groups agree that the story of the legendary Gay Knight of Frisia began on the same day as all other life...
God desired to fill the Earth with life, and so he formed three figures from the clay of the ground. He nourished them with the water of the sea, and blew life into them with the air of the heavens... but God saw that each of his three creations was different.
The first was beautiful, strong, and perfectly in his image. It inspired hearty warmth and confidence in the creator. It represented the unity and the common beauty of existence and of the creator's form. So he spoke aloud, saying "This form shall be named the Statue of Man." God then placed the Statue of Man upon the Earth to roam and adventure and partake in the wholesomeness and bountifulness of this new world. And so it was.
The second statue was far different. It was not beautiful and strong like the first, nor was it in his image. In truth it inspired revulsion in the creator when he looked upon it, for it was not what he had foreseen. So God pushed it aside saying "This one shall be named the Statue of Revulsion, for it is all things wrong, and must exist as an example of all things wrong, an anti-force of the Statue of Man." God saw that he could not place the Statue of Man and the State of Revulsion both on the same plains of the Earth. To host the Statue of Revulsion he created a cold, dark Underworld befitting the statue--the Realm of Basements. And so God placed the Statue of Revulsion in the Realm of Basements, and with a final, concerned thought before looking to the third statue spoke aloud "This Statue... The Statue of Revulsion... shall be known to man as Keshian." And so it was.
Finally the creator drew his eyes to the third statue. The third was neither the perfect image of the creator seen in the Statue of Man, nor the image of disgusting qualities seen in the Statue of Revulsion. The third statue was something entirely different. The more The Lord stared upon it trying to divine its qualities, the more he found himself confused yet attracted to this statue. This emotion was new to God, and he spoke of his feelings towards the figure saying "this feeling shall be called Gay, and it is the ruling quality of this figure." So God, seeing that the new figure was admirable with noble qualities, fit to walk among man, and ruled by the feeling of Gay, declared "This form shall be known as the Statue of Gay, and it shall live upon the Earth with the Statue of Man. The Statue of Gay is honorable and strong, and shall protect the Statue of Man by guarding the Gates to the Underworld so that the Earth may not be overrun by the hissing cries and struggles of the Statue of Revulsion to corrupt the Statue of Man." Then with a final thought before placing the Statue of Gay upon the Earth, The Lord commented "Let the Statue of Gay be known to man as Daruvian, the Gay Knight."
And so it was....
